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Another word for mountainous

mountainous Synonyms

mountainous

modif.

mountainlike, mountain, with mountains, difficult, barbarous, wild, untamed, strange, remote, uncivilized, rude, crude, unpopulated, solitary, unfamiliar, hard to penetrate, isolated, steep, lofty, hilly, alpine, upland, aerial, elevated, volcanic, towering, ridged, craggy, cliffy, rugged; see also high 2, rocky.

Antonyms low*, small, flat*.

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Another word for mountainous

adjective

Of extraordinary size and power:

behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. (Informal) walloping. (Slang) whopping. See big

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Wild boars are also found in mountainous and forest districts.
The dark base of the mountainous thunderheads had a greenish tinge.
Southern Albania, again, is almost wholly mountainous, with the exception of the plains of Iannina and Arta; the most noteworthy feature is the rugged range of the Tchika, or Khimara mountains, which skirt the sea-coast from south-west to northeast, terminating in the lofty promontory of Glossa (ancient Acroceraunia).
In most cases, owing to the mountainous character of the country, horizontal galleries are possible.
The country in the neighbourhood is mountainous and bare, but the lowlands are well cultivated.

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